A Spring Clean
A Spring Clean
Introducing the Kukri Knife, brand new weapon models from CS2, a brand new Operation and 4 new collections of skins.
Introducing the Kukri Knife

A brand new knife, the Kukri makes its first appearance in Lambda. Available in the Kilowatt & Gallery cases, along with the Operation Equinox Store.

Introducing CS2 Weapon Models

We have ported, and re-rigged all of CS2's new weapon models and back-porting them to Source 1. As of this update, all stock weapons will use the new models. Don't worry, all your existing skins will use the existing models, with the exception of pattern based skins which have been migrated automatically.

Inspecting? Grenades? Completed it mate

In addition to gun models, the grenades have been ported as well, now featuring brand new inspect animations!

A Spring Clean

The first major operation for 2025 introduces the aptly named, Operation Equinox.

The operation will run from today, all the way up until the start of Summer on 21st June, 2025.

14 Missions will be dropped every 2 weeks introducing along side it, new content for the Shop, re-imagined older gamemodes using our new base gamemode and much more.

Earn Eggs, Get Rewards

The currency for this operation is Eggs (As in, Easter Eggs)

Eggs are earned by completing missions, and can be spent in the store for exclusive rewards.

Two brand new collections are available to pick from, using the new High-Definition weapon models; The Train 2025 Collection and the Overpass 2024 Collection.

You can also use your rewards to get a random Kukri knife, Equinox Music kit, Kilowatt Case, Gallery Case and random collection items.

For a first time ever, you can also collect Operation currency in the 3D game world. See below for more details.

Level up your pin

As with previous operations, you can level-up your pin to three unique levels.

Bronze (Purchasing the pass), Silver (20 Completed Missions), Gold (50 Completed Missions) and Diamond (80 Completed Missions)

Collect eggs

Get the rewards you want quicker! You can now collect eggs in Skill Surf, Bunny Hop, Deathmatch, Arms Race and Guardian.

There are different tiers of egg that spawn:

  • Immortal: 20 Eggs
  • Ancient: 10 Eggs
  • Legendary: 6 Eggs
  • Mythical: 5 Eggs
  • Rare: 4 Eggs
  • Uncommon: 3 Eggs
  • Common: 2 Eggs

All players can only claim two eggs per day.

The Kilowatt Case

CS2's first case using the new weapon models, is also the first case in Lambda to utilise the new models. Containing 17 high quality skins created by the Counter-Strike community and featuring the Kukri knife as a rare item.

The Kilowatt case is now dropping via the drop system or can be purchased from the Operation Equinox Store and Lambda Store.

Overpass 2024 Collection

Inspired by its iconic graffiti, the Overpass Collection includes 16 weapon finishes from the Monster to the Biergarten.

The Overpass 2024 Collection is now dropping in the drop system or can be purchased from the Operation Equinox Store and Lambda Store.

A Train 2025 Collection

The 2025 Train collection is here, based on the Counter-Strike 2 map: de_train. Now available in the Operation Equinox Store or via the Lambda Store

The Equinox Music Kit Box

With spring now here and lighter evenings in the Northern Hemisphere, the Equinox Music Kit Box brings 12 Lambda Community-created music kits ranging from EDM to Rock.

Implementation of Shaders

A recent Garry's Mod update introduced partial shader support.

While we can't really use these in a meaningful way in 3D space, as it's a 2D shader, we have started to implement it for user interface elements.

Drawing perfect circles, which was impossible previously without various hacks is now possible thanks to Pixel Shaders

In addition, we've replaced the UI elements that used the unoptimised Source Engine blur with a brand new optimised version that has been built in a pixel shader.

With this in mind, we've give the case unboxing UI a little bit of a facelift which you can see in the image above.